• nomadjoanne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There are a lot of commies here. I don’t particularly like them but that is there right and lemmy is not and should not be pro-censorship. If somepeople don’t like them they should find an instance that suits you better.

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      There are alot of people who are pissed off about the current system here. Makes sense, since these would be the people who are willing to push through the growing pains of the fediverse to remove themselves from corporate centralized sites.

      For example, I’m not necessarily a communist, since I am not convinced it’s the best alternative to our version of capitalism in America; but I will agree with the communists when they say we need to replace our broken system with something better.

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        I agree too. The problem is many communist are actually Russian propagandists. There, they “really” think communism is a viable option. But openly discussing this stuff without bias? That would be awesome. Also probably not happening

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            You’re right. For a while Russia might have been considered a “regular” capitalist society following the cold war, at least by popular opinion in the west, but they’ve driven further and further into kleptocracy and facism. Of course, facism can be wrapped in a capitalist or communist flag. One may be a better breeding ground for facism but it can root anywhere.

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            They are communist in name only.

            Russia hasn’t been communist in even name since it was part of the USSR. The only people who really consider them communist are liberals who don’t understand the difference between the USSR and the Russian Federation.

            I am not the Official Spokesman of Communism, but most communities I have seen and participate in aren’t pro-modern Russia. We might be against things like banning anything with “russian” in the name, but that doesn’t mean we see them as the second coming of the USSR. The Russian Federation is still an imperialist capitalist nation as much as any of the others.

            You have the patsocs and stuff that might be more on board with Russia, but we don’t really claim them.

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            Man anti-communism propaganda is so ingrained yet they still don’t know how real communism work (not saying is good though). Same as using facism for anything red-wing.

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            True. But there’s this kind of nostalgia for communism and what started the revanchism of the late '90s in KGB officials and Putin that stopped Russia’s evolution in a free country. Kind of sad, they have now the worst of both worlds